Jack Cinquegrana

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Jack Cinquegrana is a veteran trial lawyer and bar leader, with over 30 years of experience in public service, government enforcement defense, and litigation.

Jack is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is consistently recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in the specialties of Bet-the-Company Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense, Securities Litigation, and Corporate Governance Law; Chambers USA; The International Who’s Who of Business Crime Lawyers; Who’s Who Legal; and Massachusetts Super Lawyers Top 100.

Jack currently serves as Chairman of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the governing board of Massachusetts’ public defender agency, and as a Director of the Pine Street Inn, the largest resource for homeless men and women in New England. He has served as President of the Boston Bar Association, a member of the Massachusetts Sentencing Commission, Special Counsel to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, an Assistant United States Attorney, and Chief Trial Counsel in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

Professional Memberships

President of the Boston Bar Association (2006-2007);

Member and former Chair of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the governing board of Massachusetts’ public defender agency, which provides legal representation to indigent persons in criminal and civil cases throughout the state (2012-present); Member (2009-2012);

Board of Directors, Pine Street Inn (2017-present);

Special Counsel to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, for the purpose of conducting an independent inquiry regarding the Massachusetts District Courts and the Boston Municipal;

Member of the Commission to Study the Compensation of Assistant District Attorneys and Staff Attorneys for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, by appointment of the Governor (2014);

Committee on Judicial Performance Evaluation, by appointment of the Supreme Judicial Court (2013-2014);

Member of the American Bar Association’s nine-member Criminal Justice Standards Committee, which monitors, updates and implements the ABA’s Standards for Criminal Justice. Jack served as a reviewer of the ABA Standards for Criminal Justice: DNA Evidence (2007) and ABA Standards for Criminal Justice: Prosecutorial Investigations (2008);

Member of the Massachusetts Sentencing Commission, by appointment of the Governor (2004-2005);

Member of the American College of Trial Lawyers’ Massachusetts State Committee and Federal Criminal Procedure Committee;

Over ten years’ of service as an officer and director of the Crime and Justice Foundation (now Community Resources for Justice) in Boston, a non-profit organization providing support and advocacy for individuals transitioning from the adult and juvenile criminal justice systems;

Adjunct Faculty member at New England Law School, teaching Federal White Collar practice; Instructor in trial practice at Harvard Law School, The Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute in the Department of Justice, Boston College Law School, Suffolk University Law School, the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and the Boston Bar Association